That was the way I likeD to get a book. I did not like to open a bookcase, especially with someone watching, and know that I had to take one, HAD to. The letter H can be useful to create some two-letter words but there are some longer, high scoring words too. Here are some examples. See Faber authors in conversation and hear readings from their work at Faber Members events, literary festivals and at book shops across the UK. This book is character driven. The characters are rich, rounded and realistic characters. No stereotypes. No platitudes. No fear of offending. No judgements. The fat girl asks for a banana spread with peanut butter when she's stressed. Yes, that's what fat people do. They use food to manage their unhappiness. And thin people don't eat when they are stressed. That's real life. Betsy Byars has created two imaginative boys, Tommie and Petie, aged nine going on ten, who are separated and who write to each other. Nice idea. Betsy Byars (née Cromer; 1928 –2020), an American author of children's books, says The Midnight Fox is her favourite of all her books. It was also the first book she put parts of her own life into, using headlines that came from some Betsy and her sister wrote as girls and things that her own dog had done.

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This was a great winter day's read, so well written, with characters I could believe in and care about and with the creative, funny thinking of Tom and his love for the fox he discovers driving it forward. Putting out food they can take away and cache. Offering something they can eat on the spot discourages them from digging up neighbours’ gardens! A home-renovation project is interrupted by a family of wrens, allowing a young girl an up-close glimpse of nature. my fox is better than an ordinary fox. It will live for ever, it will never suffer from hunger or hounds. I have it with me wherever I go. And I made it … through imagining it clearly enough and finding the living words.' I would recommend this book to anyone who loves animals and an adventure story.’ Josh, age 10, ToppstaThe poet skillfully uses soft alliterative consonants, like ’m’s in the first line and the hard ’s’s and ’t’s in the last stanza. Carefully placed punctuation, for example semi-colons in stanzas one and two, controls the pace. Faber & Faber was founded nearly a century ago, in 1929. Read about our long publishing history in a decade-by-decade account. There is some controversy around feeding the foxes in your garden, but if you feed them in the right way, they can bring a huge amount of joy to your family.

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Byars, Betsy Cromer. (2009). Boo's surprise. Brooks, Erik, 1972- (1sted.). New York: Henry Holt. ISBN 978-0-8050-8817-5. OCLC 278980721. Education Shed Ltd, Severn House, Severn Bridge, Riverside North, Bewdley, Worcestershire, UK, DY12 1AB A very hard book to rate. There was such depressing animal cruelty in this book which was of course completely realistic of the time this was set. Without this awful treatment of animals and the way Hazeline's engagement was broken off because it was in common agreement she need to lose a stone or more, this would have been a 4:or 5 star.I enjoyed the book a lot because of the enthusiasm and heart warming details it has in it. I would most definitely recommend this book to someone who loves animals or adventures.I wanted to keep reading to finish this book because it just grabs your attention with the words it just describes the characters so well and gives so much information and grabs your attention that you wont want to put it down.THe book created a heart warming feeling just a good book that will make you smile. When i read this it made me think of if there is a fox like in The Midnight Fox and it makes you wonder if its true and just think about the book. This book is fantastic if someone is looking for a book that will cheer them up on a bad day or just comfort them its this book because it just shows how each character feels and it shows so much love to an animal and people that it will make you want to hug someone. Adjusting to life in the country is hard for city boy Tom. But, when he discovers a fox and her cubs living in the forest, he is captivated and determined to protect them. When his own Uncle decides to go after the fox, Tom needs to think fast to save the animals he has come to love. A touching and exciting story of the power of vulnerable animals to capture the heart of a boy. Trying to tame, touch or hand-feed foxes, especially in urban areas. As wild animals, they should be respected and deterred from becoming too bold. Many people are scared of urban foxes because they mistake their inquisitive behaviour for aggression.

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Although The Midnight Fox has not won any major awards in its own right, it is often described as Betsy Byars most enduring work. In her career, she wrote over sixty-five books which have been translated into nineteen languages. In 1987 Byars received the Regina Medal for lifetime achievement from the Catholic Library Association. Byars, Betsy Cromer. (2008). Domino. Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse. ISBN 978-1-4343-9236-7. OCLC 320237487.Foxes can make around 28 different sounds. Despite this, they are a mostly silent animal; calling is largely during the winter breeding season. You are most likely to hear one of two distinctive fox noises: the male dog fox’s barking call and the female vixen’s chilling scream. One of Dahl's most acclaimed and enduring titles, the novelfollows an anthropomorphic fox—the titular Mr.Fox—and his animal friends, who live near three cruel farmers . Although the farmers continually attempt to kill the animals, Mr. Fox and his friends are able to outsmart them and steal all the food they want. The next time I saw the fox, it was a marvelous accident. These don't happen very often in real life, but they do happen, and that's what this was. Like the time Petie and I were walking down the alley behind his house and there, on top of this lady's garbage, we saw a mayonnaise jar full of marbles – not just cats Eye marbles but all different kinds, kinds I had never seen before. Petie and I turned them all out on the grass and first Petie chose one and then I chose one until they were all gone. And both of us right now, today, have every single one of those marbles. no no no 😭😩 i wanted to love this so bad but i just didn’t really. i HATED the animal cruelty in this book (not just about the fox but the whole digging out the bush baby scene) and even though in the end even if the fox was saved, it was still meh 😭 i couldn’t stand the weird, insensitive discussion and comments about Hazeline being an “over-eater” and “being fat” and that her boyfriend would only marry her if she lost 20 pounds??? that’s just not a message to have in a children’s book!!! 😩 I loved the relationship between Tommy and Petie, their friendship was wonderful, I loved their love of reading, their letters to each other and the way that although Tommy was bored at first, his boredom led him to discover new wonders.

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Byars's personal experiences and observations, and those of her children, are the sources of much of her fiction. As a child, she lived part of the time in the country and part of the time in the city, so she had a variety of experiences. She has vivid memories of her school years and of teachers, friends, and bullies. Many of them show up in her fiction.Byars was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, on August 7, 1928. Unlike many of the characters in her books, Byars grew up in a normal, loving family. Her father was an engineer and worked as a bookkeeper in a cotton mill. He was stern and hardworking and had a strong sense of humor. Her mother was a lively woman who loved acting and music. Byars's sister, Nancy, two years older, was sometimes an inspiration and sometimes an evil nemesis. English–Arabic English–Bengali English–Catalan English–Czech English–Danish English–Hindi English–Korean English–Malay English–Marathi English–Russian English–Tamil English–Telugu English–Thai English–Turkish English–Ukrainian English–Vietnamese The poem comprises six stanzas of four lines each, known as quatrains. There is no regular rhyme scheme, but consonant rhyme scattered here and there, for example, for example, ‘live’ and ‘move’ in stanza one. There is no set metre but enjambed line ends create rhythm that imitates the sinuous movement of the fox.